86 PLANTATIONS. 



health of Plantations at any stage of their exist- 

 ence, and it is quite well known to the experienced 

 Forester, that they ought ever to be watched with 

 most tender care, until the planter is fully satisfied 

 that he has completed the nursing and training 

 of a sufficient number of standard trees, to furnish 

 the ultimate crop. 



But errors of omission sometimes admit of 

 remedy ; whereas, if injury is committed by ex- 

 cessive thinning, or by cutting down trees which 

 ought to have remained, it is often difficult, and 

 sometimes impossible, to repair the mischief that 

 is done. Both the errors to which I have alluded, 

 must be avoided by the planter who would desire 

 to have a healthy and continuously thriving 

 Plantation. 



Having considered well the following points, 

 viz., the preparation of his land the selection of 

 the species of trees that he will plant their size 

 and quality and the distance at which they shall 

 stand from each other, he must remember that, 

 from the very first, they will not only require, but 

 they will well pay for, his closest attention. Dur- 

 ing the first seven years, he may, probably, have 



